Product Marketing Specialist at Consumers Credit Union in Lake Forest, IL

Job description

• At Consumers Credit Union (CCU), we're dedicated to helping our members achieve financial success through innovative products, exceptional service, and meaningful relationships. We're looking for a Product Marketing Specialist who thrives at the intersection of marketing, analytics, product strategy, and partnership management.
• In this role, you'll lead our affiliate marketing program, oversee our digital offers platform, and collaborate across the organization to bring product marketing initiatives to life. If you're a data-driven marketer who enjoys building relationships, optimizing campaigns, and turning insights into action, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize CCU's affiliate marketing program, serving as the primary liaison between our affiliate agency and internal stakeholders.
• Monitor program performance, profitability, application quality, and partner ROI, providing insights and recommendations to leadership.
• Manage affiliate relationships and commission structures to support growth and profitability goals.
• Administer and optimize CCU's digital offers platform, coordinating campaigns with product, marketing, finance, digital banking, and external partners.
• Ensure product offers and content are accurate, compelling, and aligned with conversion objectives.
• Monitor performance, resolve issues, and leverage data insights to improve campaign effectiveness.
• Coordinate the creation and delivery of marketing materials, including web content, emails, presentations, sales tools, and collateral.
• Execute product marketing campaigns and support go-to-market initiatives that drive awareness, adoption, and growth.
• Assist with product launches, enhancements, testing, and training materials to ensure successful implementation and frontline readiness.
• Partner cross-functionally to maintain consistent messaging, brand standards, and a strong member experience across channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related.
• 5+ years of marketing experience, preferably within financial services.
• 8+ years of relevant marketing experience in lieu of a degree, preferably within financial services.
• Experience in affiliate marketing, digital marketing, or strategic partner management as well as experience with campaign execution and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of financial products and services, particularly lending products.
• Analytical and comfortable using data to guide decisions and measure success.
• Comfort working with multiple systems and technical platforms.
• Strong communicator who excels at collaborating across teams and external partners while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Required

• Affiliate marketing
• Digital marketing
• Strategic partner management
• Campaign execution
• Performance optimization
• Data analysis
• Marketing analytics
• Financial products knowledge
• Lending products knowledge
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Project management
• Communication

Benefits

• The salary range for this role is $78,198 - $125,114 per year. This role is eligible for an annual bonus opportunity. A specific salary offer considers factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the salary range and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
• Consumers Credit Union provides eligible employees an opportunity to participate in our medical (High Deductible, HMO and PPO), dental, vision, spending accounts, short-term disability, long-term disability, life insurance and other plans effective date of hire. You will be eligible to participate in the 401(k) savings plan at any time. You will be automatically enrolled in the pension plan following six months of employment and 1,000 hours of service and reaching age 20.
• For more information about benefit offerings, please visit our careers page: https://www.myconsumers.org/about/what-we-do/careers